Quality Assurance Functional Associate- ScotiaTech

Scotiabank; Bogotá, Distrito Capital; Presencial; COP 87.010.115 - 130.515.172; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Scotiabank is seeking a QA Tester in Bogota, Colombia to contribute to the quality assurance team. The role involves supervising testing for projects, designing UAT test plans, and collaborating with project teams to ensure fulfillment of business and technical requirements. Candidates should have a degree in a relevant field and 1-3 years of QA experience. Strong communications skills in English and Spanish are essential. This position provides an opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment on critical banking applications.

Formación

• 1-3 years of practical hands-on experience as a QA Tester.
• Proven work experience in software quality assurance.
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes.
• Hands-on experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Contribute to overall success of QA in Bogota, ensuring alignment with business strategies.
• Supervise and coordinate testing for various projects/releases.
• Design UAT test plans and assign review responsibilities.
• Evaluate priorities for projects and take decisive action as required.
• Assess UAT test results and manage defect resolution process.

Conocimientos

Software quality assurance

Clear test plans writing

SQL queries for data validation

White box testing

Black box testing

Automated testing tools

Agile/Scrum development

Performance/security testing

Educación

Degree in computer science, IT Business/Management or engineering related discipline

Herramientas

JIRA

Descripción del empleo

Requisition ID: 257147

Purpose

Contributes to the overall success of the QA / Global Enterprise Technology / Quality Assurance in Bogota, Colombia ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

Accountabilities

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Supervise and coordinate testing for projects/releases.
• Assess UAT projects to determine the risk of releasing the code into the current test environment, specifically the possible impact to multiple projects, the degree of overlap in the applications and the code itself, within extremely tight timeframes.
• Design UAT test plans; assign and review test documentation (functions, test cases, scripts); balance the need to mitigate risk with the optimal use of testing resources while adhering to UAT policies, standards and procedures.
• Schedule and approve the release of projects into the UAT environment; execute complex test plans and supervise the execution of testing, coordinating resources, people and environments on a daily basis to meet the specific requirements for a project; manage multiple stakeholders with conflicting time and needs requirements; coordinate code delivery with external service providers.
• Continually evaluate priorities for various projects in response to frequent directional changes and take decisive action as required.
• Assess the results of UAT tests and take appropriate action; work closely with the development group to resolve defects; escalate issues to management when necessary; make recommendations to release the code to Production.
• Transfer application and process expertise to more junior analysts within UAT; provide hands‑on training on systems, hardware, environment, product, standards and methodology to test team members; coach, motivate and provide feedback on department and project objectives, conflict resolution and team building to assigned staff.
• Work with individual project teams, during the software development life cycle, to ensure business and technical requirements have been fulfilled; contribute recommendations and assessments to ongoing project reviews.
• Maintain a thorough and current understanding of a broad range of assigned banking applications, UAT code configuration, system integration, environment resources and code delivery process; provide technical advice to development teams and external suppliers on integration of specific applications within the UAT environment.

Qualifications

• A degree in computer science, IT Business/Management or engineering related discipline is desirable.
• 1-3 years of demonstrable, practical hands‑on experience as a QA Tester.
• Proven work experience in software quality assurance.
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes.
• Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Demonstrable, practical hands‑on experience writing simple or complex SQL queries for data validation.
• Hands‑on experience with both white box and black box testing.
• Hands‑on experience with automated testing tools (desirable).
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus.
• Demonstrable, practical hands‑on experience using JIRA.
• Strong communication skills in both English and Spanish and a demonstrated ability to resolve escalated issues effectively.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity in a fast‑paced environment while managing multiple competing priorities.

Location: Bogota, Colombia